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www.smh.com.au 6y ago

Adding credit to transit card gets murderer arrested

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

News Media Outlets Have Been Ravaged by the Pandemic

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

How Online Dating Is Reshaping the Entire Economy

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

New York Is Cementing Its Role as a Tech Hub Despite HQ2 Snub

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qz.com 6y ago

Indian employers are stubbornly obsessed with elite students–& it's hurting them

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www.thecut.com 6y ago

‘Am I Too Obsessed with My Nemesis?’

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interactives.stuff.co.nz 6y ago

Cleared post-earthquake suburbs reverting to nature

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

Facebook Is Eyeing Engineers at New York Banks in Hiring Spree

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aws.amazon.com 7y ago

Amazon EC2 Instances Featuring AMD EPYC Processors

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www.latimes.com 7y ago

China, Japan and South Korea Promote Coal Abroad

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www.ft.com 7y ago

Softbank Borrowing for Half the Japanese Corporate Debt

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www.ft.com 7y ago

Stem education is becoming simplified and commoditised

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

How to improve team's learning presentations

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www.smh.com.au 7y ago

Not enough jobs for science graduates challenges STEM hype

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www.cnbc.com 7y ago

Ken Griffin says less likely to move Citadel to NYC after Amazon's exit

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Monitoring Tools for Batch Jobs

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www.reuters.com 7y ago

Cities shunned by Amazon revive hopes for HQ given New York opposition

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www.stuff.co.nz 7y ago

NZ: Test of 10 gigabit ultrafast broadband to begin in March

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www.foxnews.com 7y ago

Robocalls reach ridiculous level, as people are afraid to answer their phones

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www.washingtonpost.com 7y ago

Shaken by Amazon’s rejection, some cities ponder what went wrong

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www.cnbc.com 7y ago

Red Hat's co-founder was unemployed and working in a closet when starting the co

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www.nytimes.com 7y ago

I Like Your Photographs Because They Are Beautiful

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www.bbc.com 7y ago

Surgery students 'losing dexterity to stitch patients'

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www.nytimes.com 7y ago

Goodbye Silicon Valley, Hello East Village

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time.com 7y ago

Almost 40% of Americans Eat Fast Food on Any Given Day, Report Says

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www.nytimes.com 7y ago

The Future of Electric Cars Is Brighter with Elon Musk in It

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www.forbes.com 7y ago

Had They Bet Nuclear Not Renewables,Germany&California Would Have 100% Clean Pwr

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morphocode.com 8y ago

Location and time: urban data visualization

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medium.com 8y ago

What's missing in education

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

The Case for Having a Hobby

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I like generics for collections but that is about it. I've seen "gifted" programmers turn everything into generic classes and functions which then makes it very difficult for anyone else to figure out what is going on.

One reason I like go is it doesn't have all the bells and whistles that give too many choices.

What I dont understand is that so many of the world's great intellectuals lived in beautiful cities and towns. University towns often are really pretty with quaint buildings both in Europe and the East Coast.

Then how did SV manage to do well? Butt ugly warehouses and suburban office buildings.

There are two conflicting attitudes for Prestige universities

A) Ivies/Standford are better than regular universities because they have resources, powerful alumni and well connected students B) They should let XYZ in because they have great test scores

If B was really the most important A would no longer be true.

I have a Surface which I found the best tablet as it was bigger than most.

In the end I gave up buying ebooks and went back to regular books. If there is a pdf I have to read I'll do on my workstation.

The problem is that software no-one wants often has the best careers.

I worked on a system used by many people and it was hard work, was getting 10-15 years old, held together with tape and lots of users who all had their gripes and requests.

I moved to a system hardly used by anyone and life is so much better. Get to play with interesting technology and no one minds because there is now risk of annoying a our users who dont really care. The best thing is I get paid more here too.

I think its definitely possible, the problem is that after 10 years experience you dont really get much better which caps your salary. My earnings peaked when I was 35 and have gone sideways even shrunk since then. You also have to keep learning - which is a bigger time sink than you think.

Looking back I'm happy but feel like going management route makes more sense and I should have been braver. However there aren't so many management roles either.

On Systemic Debt 6 years ago

Much harder, and much longer: you couldn't release to production until someone with authority signed off on it, and that might take days.

Wow lucky guy, its only a few days for you.

I'm not convinced there is a problem specifically with FB either. Personally its great to keep up to date with friends and family globally. I only spend 20 minutes a week though. I spent a lot more time on Twitter and Reddit and those platforms seem much more toxic.

I think this is pretty common in all professions teachers, doctors, even unskilled workers its like WTF.

Its worse for tech though because you salary probably wont be going up from here.

leetcode.

I hate I have to do these stupid exercises to be able to get a job, but I have learned some useful skills by looking at how I write code and comparing to faster solutions. It has changed how I write normal code, and helps me write automatically without thinking too much.

The biggest problem with the dollar is America's ruthless crackdown on dollar transactions, examining everyone and criminalizing those who break the rules.

That isn't bad, the problem is you never know who's going to be in the bad box. Iran, Cuba had agreements with Obama administration and trade was opening up then a few years later you go to jail for making dollar payments with Iran see Huawei exec. Places like Indonesia, Saudi, Turkey, Argentina, Egypt are sometimes friends then suddenly enemies. I dont know why they will continue to want to hold dollars. I think if we see another 10 years of the Euro holding together and/or some good crypto currency dollar will fade.